Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Tom Browne:

Basically at the time what it was was you had probably five satellite operations, all very much independent republics in terms of, you know, Vienna, Geneva, the Isle of Man, Dublin private banking, the assurance company, and they were all very much doing their own thing. The creation of the develop ... of the ... what I was asked to do was pull together, you know, a cohesive approach in terms of those businesses in terms of creating a strategy around them in terms of growing the business, and using, kind of, some of the attributes of, say, the fund management expertise in a place like Geneva and see could it be applied in places like Dublin or London or Vienna. So it was ... they were ... they were very much independent republics in their own right before that and the idea about creating the division was to actually pull it all together and put a, kind of, a strategy around the business.

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